August 5, 2022 • 37 mins
Biden attempts victory lap on jobs numbers. Biden on electric cars. Blinken on Brittney Griner prisoner trade negotiations. An amazing story from a Reagan speech -- apocryphal or not. The danger of the Alex Jones verdict. Buck finishes the show with some calls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show Podcast. Friday, Hour three of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show gets going right now. Clay on vacation,
This is Buck holding it down from New York Buy
and just spoke and last hour to the Old Nation
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or whoever watching on the Jobs Report, the economy. This bill,
they really are calling it the Inflation Act, which is
interesting because doesn't it kind of sound like it's gonna
cause more inflation? Shouldn't They at least call it the
Anti Inflation Act? But I guess anti something doesn't sound
good to people. You want to be for something, not
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anti something as a law. I guess I don't know
the Inflation Act. But this is where you're going to
see a lot of contentious back and forth. And we are,
unfortunately gonna be reliant on or we're gonna be using
economists economists predictions, and that's not always going to work
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out the way we wanted too, because they're gonna put
out their economists, we're gonna their numbers, We're gonna put
out our numbers, and who's telling the truth. By the
time people figure out who's right, who's wrong, what the
truth is. So much has passed that people forget who
was saying what right? This is Half of the news
media would no longer have a job if being wrong
about something was brought up later on as a reason
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to not listen to them anymore. They say what they
think will land well when they say it, true of politicians,
true the media, and then by the time they're wrong
about everything, they just pretend like they didn't say it,
or they just move on to something else. You all remember,
of course, the Great Rush himself saying they drive by media,
they destroy, they don't care, they move on. It's absolutely true.
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So Biden is going to tell everybody, oh, there's no
reason to worry about this bill. It's gonna be amazing,
in fact, so amazing that they had to drag even
a couple of Democrats across the finished line on this one.
Not a single Republican vote are they getting for this.
They're going to be voting on it on the floor
of the Senate tomorrow. Oh, speak of the Senate A
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sharp eared Well, I guess all of you heard me
say this, But for some reason, I kept confusing Delaware
and Connecticut in my mind with the Senator kons who
is of course from Delaware Joe Biden's homestate, not from Connecticut.
We were just talking about Bloomenthall. Bloomenthal is a Democrat
senator in the state of Connecticut. But let's get back
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to you. So, anytime I get something wrong, I want
to get it right. So let us know. You're never
You're never being too much of a stickler for the facts.
If I say something that is objectively in need of correction,
please give us a heads up. And if you go
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email in your corrections to us to the VIP number
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and make sure that we are always always getting it right.
We were still trying to live down the well. Who yes,
I think I said. Now, I can't remember what the
mistake was, but I remember who was involved, Viper versus
who's the other one from it wasn't there's Goose and
Maverick in top Gun obviously Goose rip and the Jester,
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Jester and Viper. I mixed up Jester and Viper and
we got lit up on that one. You know, to
mix up Ironside with Tom? What's this? What's his Tom?
What's his face. You know that other guy who's really
important Scarritt, Tom Scarrett, grade eighties actor Michael Ironside. Actually
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it really had some some good roles too, did some
good stuff anyway, So I wanted to correct that Biden
is out there making the case to people right now,
and I'd understand this the momentum. I told you it
is wake up week for Republicans because momentum is shifting.
Right at the critical point. The momentum is shifting, and
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just a little bit. It's not it's we don't need
to run for the lifeboats or break the glass, hit
the panic button, nothing to do any of that stuff.
But this is a week where we are getting a
little dose of reality here about what's going to happen
going into these mid terms, what these individual races are
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looking like. And I'm telling you, even if we go
into something of a more prolonged recession here, by the
time people are voting for president, it's very likely the US,
as much as Democrats make it worse, we'll be in
something of a rebound. And that's why I am not
convinced that Joe Biden is going to forego a second term,
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even trying to get a second term. Here he is
out there telling everybody that if you make less than
four hundred grand, the Inflation Act is not going to
raise tax This bill will not. Let me repeat this,
this bill will not will not raise taxes on anybody
making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year. When
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it comes to the benefits of this bill, you don't
have to take my word for it. The only one
hundred and thirty economists seven Nobel lawrates an economy on
the economists and the economics, I should say, former Secretaries
of Treasury, Federal Reserve, former Federal Reserve Vice chair, former
Director of the Congressional Budget Officer wrote that this bill
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will quote combine, they wrote signed, will quote fight inflation
and lower costs for American families while sending the states
for strong, stable, and broadly shared long term economic growth.
Eight hundred economists, you know five million Nobel warriors who
right Just everybody agrees to me, is what he's saying.
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Everybody agrees with me, who knows that anything. It's not true.
But this is the perception he's trying to create with this.
I would ask some very basic questions. I don't have
a PhD in economics or a Nobel prize in that field,
as does say Paul Krugman. But I'm also not wrong
all the time. Isn't that interesting? How many of the
individuals that he cited there from that huge number are
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six million economists and eight eight bajillion really smart math guys.
They're smart at the math. What do I mean by math?
I mean the numbers on the page? You add them up,
no calculator, l at old school with the pencil. Yeah,
Joe Bidenes, Let you know, that's how it goes. How
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is it that they're going to raise taxes on corporations
and that tax is not going to result in higher
prices at a time of rising prices for individuals? Just
just wondering, would love them to explain that one a
little bit. You're gonna have taxes getting boosted on manufacturers.
What do manufacturers do? They make stuff? Right, And if
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they're making stuff and their costs are up as they
currently are already, but if they're raised even more artificially
by the government increasing their tax bill, what happens then
well prices go up too, even more than they already have.
But the part of this where you're really seeing ideology
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in place of anything even approaching economics math. Reality is
on the energy side of it. Biden here making his
case to everybody that this is fascinating clean energy, windmills
and solar power are actually about national security. Think of
the intellectual gymnastics really more like a belly flop into
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the shallow end of the pool. But think about them,
I mean the economic gymnastics required to get to this
place here he is, and make historic investments in clean energy.
Clean energy security is the security of the country's at stake.
We're gonna save American families one hundreds of dollars year
on paying their energy bills by allowing them to have
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money to invest, by getting allowing them to put in
new windows and doors and solar panels and the like,
and get tax credits for that. Oh boy, you know,
solar panels we need, we need. You know, it's really
gonna juice this economy. You know, it's really going to
get it all going. We throw some some tax funded,
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taxpayer funded solar panels on some people's houses. This is
going to be a great idea. Yeah, China spent a
lot of time, by the way, getting access to and
really controlling the supply of rare earth metals that are
necessary for this whole battery and solar green energy future
that we was talking about in this country. So it's
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fascinating they keep telling us if only we were reliant
on the windmills and the solar panels, we wouldn't have
to worry about the global energy markets. We would have
much greater security. But if you look a little deeper
into that those earth minerals in the process is used
to get them and manufacture them into the Green New Deal,
energy technologies are very high in energy cost and real
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pollutants the environment. Just note that. And the Chinese have
far better access have spent much more time on acquisition
of rare earth minerals than we have, so they haven't
really thought this thing through other than climate change. Scary,
spend money on climate change issues. That's all they can
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think about right now because they've been told this, and
you know which really is a lot of people want
to be told what to do. They want to be
told what to think. We saw this during COVID. Unfortunately,
it's why there's still a lot of folks walking around
with three masks on outside. Okay, only one mask, but
it's an ninety five. They're walking around because they want
someone who has all the answers or pretends to have
all the answers and makes them feel like everything is
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going to be okay. Democrats are doing that with climate
change all the time. It's the world's gonna end unless
you do what we say, and then everything will be great,
and you get to be one of the good people
who have stopped this evil from befalling the whole planet.
That's the pitch, right. A lot of people go along
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with it. A lot of people think that this is
exactly what they need to be a part of. Costs
them nothing really, or at least in the immediate in
the immediate sense, and they get to be saving the planet,
saving the planet, the Green New Deal, Joe Biden. These
are people who have no understanding whatsoever of the role
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that fossil fuels play in the economy in a sense
of what creates our real prosperity, and where America has
a tremendous advantage over so many other countries, huge advantage
over China, and you guessed it, fossil fuel production. We
are blessed in this country with access to unbelievable energy reserves,
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and the Left just wants to, out of a sense
of arrogance and spite, move us away from that as
fast as possible, at whatever the cost is, because they've
turned this into a function of religious belief. And Joe
Biden out there telling everybody that this is about national
security transitioning to greener I mean, come on, trust me.
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Vladimir Putin is not scared of Libs in you know,
the Valley of California putting some additional solar panels funded
by taxpayer credits onto their houses. Okay, that's not making
The Saudis aren't worried about it, the Russians aren't scared
of it. But these are the things they're trying to
sell you on with this With this bill, doesn't matter
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that it's not going to work. They are dedicated to it.
Another thing where I'm wondering what the explanation is from
the Libs. We have busload right here in New York
City where I am, bus loads of illegal migrants being
dropped off courtesy of Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas
arranging this bus transportation for them, and the Mayor of
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New York as well as the mayor of DC because
there are bus loads dropping off illegal migrants. There too
are complaining about this, which is so strange because I
remember hearing all the time about how we are all
made richer and better and safer and more law abiding
as a country. And the more illegal immigrants the better,
is the Democrat belief. Illegal immigrants people that just come.
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We don't know who they are, we don't you know,
we just they just show up. They say here I am.
They come into the country. A lot of them are gataways.
Others surrender themselves whatever. They're fine with it. They're fine
with they want more of it. So then why is
New York complaining about it. Let's dive into that one
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is a thing. Um, They're gonna be making electric corvett.
You're gonna make a lot of electric cars going forward.
Notice how the left claims to care so much about
climate change, and yet the person who has done more
for the electric car industry to be really on the
up and up more than any other, Elon Musk and Tesla,
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gets a lot of a lot of heat from the left.
They don't like him because he believes at some level
in capitalism and freedom and is reality based in much
of his thinking. I'm sure he's not right wing on
a whole range of thing too, but he does have
some places where he is highly rational or in general,
it's highly rational in his thinking, and there's some places
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where that makes you effectively right wing these days. Steve
in Minnesota, what do you got for? As Steve Buck
this is I'm up here. I just was thinking, you know,
for those that have never seen the movie Red Dawn,
that's dead on what's what's gonna come? They don't get
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their act together here pretty soon? Well, you think there's
gonna be an invasion involving the Soviets in Cuba, but
in this case it would be China instead, Right, China,
I think? Well, only to make your producer said, they're
not going to pass the parachute because they're already here. Well, Steve,
thanks for calling it from Minnesota. Red Dawn, the original
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Red Dawn was a cult classic. Um, I'm gonna be
honest with you all. I've seen parts of it. I
haven't really seen it in one sitting all the way through,
but they did a Red Dawn remake, and I believe
it did not do very well Back in twenty twelve.
I think that North Korea instead of China was the antagonist.
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Right So I'm gonna say this right now. I don't
even think the Biden administration would be incapable of repelling
an invasion by North Korea. I think they would be
able to handle that one. China would be certainly more
of a handful. But that's a reminder that you can't
even Hollywood no longer makes movies where America is the
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good guy and some other country anywhere else in the
world is our opponent in the movie. They just don't
do that anymore. It's quite a shift, isn't it. You
think back to not only Red Dawn, but also Rocky
four with Ivan Drago, we were all cheering for America
against the Soviet Union. You have, the obvious antagonist would
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be China in the current context. But China is such
a big market for these movies, and the Chinese Communist
Party has so many investments, so many economic levers to
pull against big companies, tech companies, creative arms of places
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like Amazon, etc. That they are able to avoid any
of that, and they end up even making movies with
Matt Damon, like Great Wall, which is the most I
don't know, was that not on the list of the
biggest bombs yesterday? Because maybe it made money. It might
have even made money. The movie. I couldn't get through
more than more than ten minutes of it. I tried.
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I'm like, there's there's acrobats flying around with all this
colorful stuff, and there's weird lizard monsters attacking them, and
it's China, but it's the whole thing was crazy. It
was I've never done acid, but I imagine an acid
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We've all seen the sentencing conviction of Britney Grinder to
nine years in prison, and that further compounds the injustice
that's being done to her and her wrongful detention. It
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puts a spotlight on our very Signfican concern with Russia's
legal system and the Russian government's use of wrongful detentions
to advance its own agenda using individuals as political bonds.
The same goes for Paul Wheelan. We put forward, as
you know, a substantial proposal that Russias had engaged with
us on and what Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning
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and said publicly is that they are prepared to engage
through channels we've established to do just that, and we'll
be pursuing that. That was a Secretary of State speaking
about Britney Grinder getting a nine years sentence in Russian prison,
where she's going to Russian prisons as of now for
nine years. Just yesterday, the Russians have confirmed that the
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trade negotiations are under way for Victor Bout, the arms trafficker,
notor US arms trafficker who served as the inspiration for
the Nicolas Cage character in the film Lord of War.
That trade may be happening, and it would include Paul
whale In, a former marine who was wrongfully charged with
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espionage in Russia. And so this is a inherently a
foreign policy issue, which is why the Secretary of State,
anytime an American has held abroad, there's a reason that
the embassy gets involved. Now that doesn't mean the embassy
gets you out, doesn't mean the American government even says, hey,
you're not allowed to hold that person. Depends on what
you do. You know, if you're you're drunk driving and
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caused a serious accident in Tajikistan. You're going to serve
some time in prison, right, doesn't matter that there's a
US embassy there. They're going to say, yeah, this person
violeted your laws. But they'll they'll be there to make
sure that you have some for you know, for humanitarian purposes,
some to process rights that they'll try to do what
they can with the host government to make sure that
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the best interests of that American citizen are looked after.
Essentially is how it goes. But I know there was
a really interesting how much the audience I think yesterday
of this program really felt a whole range of emotions
over this. When it comes to Brittany Griner and I
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should you know, there's this amazing story. I don't know
if anyone can there's a I've seen it pop up
over the years. I wonder if it is apocryphal. It's
supposedly from the Ronald Ronald Reagan's speech back in I
think it was the seventies where he talked about the
uss Ingram and a refugee from the Austro Hungarian Empire
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named Kasta. I've not been able to find that much
documentation of this speech, and it looks like one of
these stories that I don't know. It's an amazing story
though for what it is, and you know what, I'll
read this one thing. I can't verify the providence of this,
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but it's a good story. So we can say it's
either a speech that it's either from a speech that
Reagan gave, or it's just something that somebody made up
on the Internet that sounds like a speech Reagan gave.
And it's really good. I know there is a uss ingram.
There have been many of them, many iterations of that
in the United States Navy, but you see this one.
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This is the story that pops up. And I'm wondering
if someone could send me a true source verification for
this in Reagan's speeches, because I've done a little looking
and was naughty, and don't just send me like Reagan
speech slash net dot php underscore. It's got to be
you know, show me. I need to see the original
source material on it. But here's the story, apocryphal or not.
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In less than twenty years, would go because the god
given rights of American sailors, as defined the Constitution were
being violated by a foreign power. This is supposed to
be Reagan speaking here. We serve notice then on the world,
that all of us together would act collectively to safeguard
the rights of even the least among us. But still
in an older cynical world, they were not convinced. The
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great powers of Europe still had the idea that one
day this great continent would be open again to colonizing,
and they would come over and divide us up. In
the meantime, men who yearned to breathe free were making
their way to our shores. Among them was a young
refugee from the Austro Hungarian Empire. He had been a
leader in an attempt to free Hungary from Austrian rule.
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The attempt had failed, and he fled to escape execution.
In America. This young Hungarian Costa by name, became an
importer by trade and took out his first citizenship papers.
One day, business took him to a Mediterranean port. There
was a large Austrian warship under the command of an
admiral in the harbor. He had a manservant with him.
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He had described to this manservant what the flag of
his new country looked like. Word was passed to the
Austrian warship that this revolutionary was there, and in the
night he was kidnapped and taken aboard that large ship.
This man's servant, desperate, walking up and down the harbor,
suddenly spied a flag that resembled the description he had heard.
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It was a small American war sloop. He went aboard
and told Captain Ingraham of that war sloop his story.
Captain Ingraham went to the American consul. When the American
consul learned that Costa had only taken out his first
citizenship papers, the consul washed his hands of the incident.
Captain Ingraham said, I am the senior officer in this port,
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and I believe under my oath of my office that
I owe this man the protection of our flag. He
went aboard the Austrian warship and demanded to see their prisoner,
our citizen. The admiral was amused, but they brought the
man on deck. He was in chains and had been
badly beaten. Captain Ingraham said, I can hear him better
without those chains, and the chains were removed. He walked
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over and said to Costa, I will ask you one question.
Consider your answer carefully. Do you ask the protection of
the American flag Costa nodded dumbley yes, and the captain said,
you shall have it. He went back and told the
frightened console what he had done. Later in the day,
three more Austrian warships sailed into the harbor. It looked
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as though the four were getting ready to leave. Captain
Ingraham sent a junior officer over to the Austrian flagship
to tell the admiral that any attempt to leave that
harbor with our citizen aboard would be resisted with appropriate force.
He said that he would expect a satisfactory answer by
four o'clock that afternoon. As the hour near, they looked
at each other through the glasses. As it struck four,
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he had them roll the cannons into ports, and had
them light the tapers with which they would set off
the cannons just one little sloop. Suddenly the lookout tower
called out and said they are lowering a boat, and
they rowed Costa over to the American ship. Captain Ingraham
then went below and wrote his resignation letter for the
United States Navy. In it, he said, I did what
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I thought my office of oath required, But if I
have embarrassed my country in any way, I resign. His
resignation was refused in the United States Senate with these words.
This battle that was never fought may turn out to
be the most important battle in our nation's history. Incidentally,
to this day, there always will be and has been
a uss Ingraham in the United States Navy. I don't
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know if that's really from a regged speech. It's one
of these things that gets set around by like you know,
friends or friends on the internet. It's a great story.
Is it real? I don't know, sounds real, It's well written,
but it was making its rounds and I just I
thought of this because I'd seen this for many, many
years circulating on the internet, and I thought, well, that's
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kind of how I feel about any American who is
held abroad. So it please, by the way, if you
could prove it that is real, let us let me
know and send a link. That seems kind of seems suspect,
But it's the basic ethos of this I agree with,
which is that if you're an American, you're one of ours.
Even if you say annoying stuff, even if you have
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bad you know, bad politics, whatever, if you're an American,
you're one of ours. And that still matters still matters
to me, and the First Amendment still matters to me
a lot too, which is why I'm I'm I haven't
spent a lot of time thinking about this or covering
the the trial right now going on of Alex Jones.
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And I'll say this, if I had watched it more closely,
if I had more time, I think I would have
spent more on it this week. But there's a lot
of things that have been happening and I just haven't
really been diving into it. Look, the stuff that he
said about Sandy Oak we all knows is atrocious, it's wrong,
and it's grotesque. But they I do remember that Alex
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Jones was the first person that they really made an
example of on the Internet years and years ago, before
they were admitting that they were banning conservatives, they banned
Alex Jones, or I should say, before they were banning
people like me or or anyone else you know, for
saying masks don't work or having having any questions about
the vaccines. Alex Jones was the first person I can
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remember to be deep personed in essence from the Internet
by big Tech. So I remember that lesson, and it
was because he was a they would saying he was
a crazy person, and you know he's s taking a
couple of shots at me in the past. Whatever, It's
part of the business for some people. They say things
about some people. And he said, I was I think
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a CIA plant meant to take over the media, which
I wish man, that would be amazing. CIA was backing
me taking over the media. Book Sexton part of the CIA.
He's gonna just take it all over, build the Berg's Illuminati.
But he's unders He's gone through this trilogy, just got
a four million dollars judgment against it, and you know
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there is this I think we've lost sight in this country.
We have both a legal and an ethical principle that
free speech, even speech that is heinous, even speech that
is wrong, is protected. I know there are exceptions with defamation.
I know there are some places where that is not
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an absolute. But are they making an example of Alex
Jones right now, because no one's going to stand up
and in any way defend the things that he said?
Are they? Are they doing this though at some level,
because this will be a precedent that is used to
shut down people who are you vaccine critic criminals, so
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to speak. Look at the lives that you've caused by
being a questioner of the vaccines. I do worry about this,
and I think that it's something we all have to
keep an eye on. That it always starts with the
least defensible. It always starts with the people that you say,
oh you know that, why do you say that? Or
why is he doing that? And the left never leaves
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on the Clay Travis en Buck Sexton Show in just
a few minutes here, So thanks for being with us
as always, much appreciated, Clay. I'll be back on Monday.
I was trying to find if there is in fact
any documentary evidence of any kind for the Ingraham cost affair.
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It's looking shaky, so it might be one of those
things I've seen. I told you beforehand, I said, I
read this ASID. I don't know. It'll look at a
little shaky, look at a little bit like I don't know.
Let's see, we'll see. But you know, sometimes on the internet,
you gotta remember Abraham Lincoln's timeless maxim don't believe everything
(31:58):
you read on the internet. And it's very important. Abraham
Lincoln he knew what he was talking about back then.
Hardy harheart. I know it's a dad joke. I know
Greg in Iowa. How are you doing, Greg? What's going on? Buck?
I have a farm in northwest Missouri. We have two windmills.
From the first time I signed a contract with the
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windmill company, it was twelve years before it produced any electricity,
thanks to all the regulations and stuff that they have
to go through. Also number two, last year there were
two hundred and sixty million cars in the United States,
and one million of them were electric cars. At that rate,
it's going to take two hundred and sixty years to
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replace all of our cards. Thanks for your time, beed,
Thank you, sir. Sounds like sounds like it's going to
take quite a while before we get to a place
where that actually is going to really happen. There is
something on Justice dot gov about the Costa affair seized
(33:04):
by an Austrian. Interesting. I think we have superhistorians in
this audience. Somebody must must know whether this is a
real thing or not had cost to express it. This
is from Justice dot gov and there's a footnote about
the Austrian warship story and Costa surrender, etc. Interesting. So
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I don't know the plot thickens, I can tell you
it's unfortunate. There are so many I've gotten I've gotten
dinged on this before. There are so many quotes usually
attributed to either Orwell, Churchhill or Voltaire. We were like,
that quote is awesome, and it's not actually any of
those guys. It's a it's someone named Bob who lives
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in central Illinois who just had a real moment of
brilliance that he that has then been attributed over the
internet to Voltaire. You know, so this is this is
the outs of theater of these days. At least we're
not all drowning in those chain email letters we used
to get all the time. You remember, that was a
thing drove me insane. People would send you some email.
(34:09):
It's like, oh, like, let me make your day better.
Here are ten things, ten affirmations about how your day
is better. And then the bottom, which that part of
it's fine, I don't problem, but whatever the bottom Thoughe
was like, you better send this forward or else you're
going to have fifteen years of bad luck, go bankrupt,
and have bad health. And you're like, wait, but but
I just wanted to open my email in peace. I
(34:30):
just wanted to I just wanted to read, I thought
we were in the trust tree. I thought we were
in the nest. No, that was not, in fact, not
in fact the case. By the way, three and five
Americans wish that they ate. I saw this pole yesterday.
Wish they ate with their family daily. One quick note,
I remember from the wait Dave has the rea? Does
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Dave have the goods? Here? It better not be Reagan
speeches backslash underscore PHP Reagan Patriots seven seventy five, Dave,
what do you got for us? In Utah? In the
book The Last Best Hope The Greatest Speeches of Ronald
Reagan by Ronald Reagan, the story you related as starts
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on page twenty three, the citation on page nineteen. This
was delivered to the First Conservative Political Action Conference January
twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four. And I'm actually looking at
it in Google books. I think bingo, I think can
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the referee single touchdown? I think we've got it on
the field. I think he got both feet down. Dave,
I knew this audience had pulled us off, right. Isn't
that a great story? Have you ever heard that one before? No, sir,
And it was nice to hear. I'm going to get
back to cursing at my computer. And this was a
use of my super nerd powers for good. Thank you
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for you, thank you for unleashing those nerd powers, sir.
We appreciated here. That's what I try to do on
radio every day. Nerd powers. Thank you, sir oh Man,
Look at look at that. Look I'm not a c
I thought you know media matters us book Sexton thinks
you so smart, reads fake Reagan's speech anecdote. But apparently,
what can I tell you? You You know, no big deal
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over here, just getting it done for freedom in America. Folks.
It was such an honor and approvage to be with
you this week. Thank you for sticking with me while
our may Man Clay has been on vacation. He will
be back Monday. I'll be back with you monday. We're
looking forward to getting back into the swing of the
dynamic duo of talk radio. So it's gonna be a
(36:36):
great time for sure. In the meantime, eat dinner with
your family more often. That was gonna get you before.
Whenever you can, whenever you can. Maybe I'll tell the
longer story about that next week. I was told that
by a very wise Jesuit a long time ago, and
have a great weekend. Read a good book, check out
some fun stuff. Talk to you on Monday. Shield Time
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Play Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show Podcast. Friday, Hour three of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show gets going right now. Clay on vacation,
This is Buck holding it down from New York Buy
and just spoke and last hour to the Old Nation
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or whoever watching on the Jobs Report, the economy. This bill,
they really are calling it the Inflation Act, which is
interesting because doesn't it kind of sound like it's gonna
cause more inflation? Shouldn't They at least call it the
Anti Inflation Act? But I guess anti something doesn't sound
good to people. You want to be for something, not
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anti something as a law. I guess I don't know
the Inflation Act. But this is where you're going to
see a lot of contentious back and forth. And we are,
unfortunately gonna be reliant on or we're gonna be using
economists economists predictions, and that's not always going to work
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out the way we wanted too, because they're gonna put
out their economists, we're gonna their numbers, We're gonna put
out our numbers, and who's telling the truth. By the
time people figure out who's right, who's wrong, what the
truth is. So much has passed that people forget who
was saying what right? This is Half of the news
media would no longer have a job if being wrong
about something was brought up later on as a reason
(01:29):
to not listen to them anymore. They say what they
think will land well when they say it, true of politicians,
true the media, and then by the time they're wrong
about everything, they just pretend like they didn't say it,
or they just move on to something else. You all remember,
of course, the Great Rush himself saying they drive by media,
they destroy, they don't care, they move on. It's absolutely true.
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So Biden is going to tell everybody, oh, there's no
reason to worry about this bill. It's gonna be amazing,
in fact, so amazing that they had to drag even
a couple of Democrats across the finished line on this one.
Not a single Republican vote are they getting for this.
They're going to be voting on it on the floor
of the Senate tomorrow. Oh, speak of the Senate A
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sharp eared Well, I guess all of you heard me
say this, But for some reason, I kept confusing Delaware
and Connecticut in my mind with the Senator kons who
is of course from Delaware Joe Biden's homestate, not from Connecticut.
We were just talking about Bloomenthall. Bloomenthal is a Democrat
senator in the state of Connecticut. But let's get back
(02:37):
to you. So, anytime I get something wrong, I want
to get it right. So let us know. You're never
You're never being too much of a stickler for the facts.
If I say something that is objectively in need of correction,
please give us a heads up. And if you go
to klanbuck dot com and become a VIP, you can
email in your corrections to us to the VIP number
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and make sure that we are always always getting it right.
We were still trying to live down the well. Who yes,
I think I said. Now, I can't remember what the
mistake was, but I remember who was involved, Viper versus
who's the other one from it wasn't there's Goose and
Maverick in top Gun obviously Goose rip and the Jester,
(03:24):
Jester and Viper. I mixed up Jester and Viper and
we got lit up on that one. You know, to
mix up Ironside with Tom? What's this? What's his Tom?
What's his face. You know that other guy who's really
important Scarritt, Tom Scarrett, grade eighties actor Michael Ironside. Actually
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it really had some some good roles too, did some
good stuff anyway, So I wanted to correct that Biden
is out there making the case to people right now,
and I'd understand this the momentum. I told you it
is wake up week for Republicans because momentum is shifting.
Right at the critical point. The momentum is shifting, and
(04:05):
just a little bit. It's not it's we don't need
to run for the lifeboats or break the glass, hit
the panic button, nothing to do any of that stuff.
But this is a week where we are getting a
little dose of reality here about what's going to happen
going into these mid terms, what these individual races are
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looking like. And I'm telling you, even if we go
into something of a more prolonged recession here, by the
time people are voting for president, it's very likely the US,
as much as Democrats make it worse, we'll be in
something of a rebound. And that's why I am not
convinced that Joe Biden is going to forego a second term,
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even trying to get a second term. Here he is
out there telling everybody that if you make less than
four hundred grand, the Inflation Act is not going to
raise tax This bill will not. Let me repeat this,
this bill will not will not raise taxes on anybody
making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year. When
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it comes to the benefits of this bill, you don't
have to take my word for it. The only one
hundred and thirty economists seven Nobel lawrates an economy on
the economists and the economics, I should say, former Secretaries
of Treasury, Federal Reserve, former Federal Reserve Vice chair, former
Director of the Congressional Budget Officer wrote that this bill
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will quote combine, they wrote signed, will quote fight inflation
and lower costs for American families while sending the states
for strong, stable, and broadly shared long term economic growth.
Eight hundred economists, you know five million Nobel warriors who
right Just everybody agrees to me, is what he's saying.
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Everybody agrees with me, who knows that anything. It's not true.
But this is the perception he's trying to create with this.
I would ask some very basic questions. I don't have
a PhD in economics or a Nobel prize in that field,
as does say Paul Krugman. But I'm also not wrong
all the time. Isn't that interesting? How many of the
individuals that he cited there from that huge number are
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six million economists and eight eight bajillion really smart math guys.
They're smart at the math. What do I mean by math?
I mean the numbers on the page? You add them up,
no calculator, l at old school with the pencil. Yeah,
Joe Bidenes, Let you know, that's how it goes. How
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is it that they're going to raise taxes on corporations
and that tax is not going to result in higher
prices at a time of rising prices for individuals? Just
just wondering, would love them to explain that one a
little bit. You're gonna have taxes getting boosted on manufacturers.
What do manufacturers do? They make stuff? Right, And if
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they're making stuff and their costs are up as they
currently are already, but if they're raised even more artificially
by the government increasing their tax bill, what happens then
well prices go up too, even more than they already have.
But the part of this where you're really seeing ideology
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in place of anything even approaching economics math. Reality is
on the energy side of it. Biden here making his
case to everybody that this is fascinating clean energy, windmills
and solar power are actually about national security. Think of
the intellectual gymnastics really more like a belly flop into
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the shallow end of the pool. But think about them,
I mean the economic gymnastics required to get to this
place here he is, and make historic investments in clean energy.
Clean energy security is the security of the country's at stake.
We're gonna save American families one hundreds of dollars year
on paying their energy bills by allowing them to have
(08:04):
money to invest, by getting allowing them to put in
new windows and doors and solar panels and the like,
and get tax credits for that. Oh boy, you know,
solar panels we need, we need. You know, it's really
gonna juice this economy. You know, it's really going to
get it all going. We throw some some tax funded,
(08:26):
taxpayer funded solar panels on some people's houses. This is
going to be a great idea. Yeah, China spent a
lot of time, by the way, getting access to and
really controlling the supply of rare earth metals that are
necessary for this whole battery and solar green energy future
that we was talking about in this country. So it's
(08:47):
fascinating they keep telling us if only we were reliant
on the windmills and the solar panels, we wouldn't have
to worry about the global energy markets. We would have
much greater security. But if you look a little deeper
into that those earth minerals in the process is used
to get them and manufacture them into the Green New Deal,
energy technologies are very high in energy cost and real
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pollutants the environment. Just note that. And the Chinese have
far better access have spent much more time on acquisition
of rare earth minerals than we have, so they haven't
really thought this thing through other than climate change. Scary,
spend money on climate change issues. That's all they can
(09:34):
think about right now because they've been told this, and
you know which really is a lot of people want
to be told what to do. They want to be
told what to think. We saw this during COVID. Unfortunately,
it's why there's still a lot of folks walking around
with three masks on outside. Okay, only one mask, but
it's an ninety five. They're walking around because they want
someone who has all the answers or pretends to have
all the answers and makes them feel like everything is
(09:56):
going to be okay. Democrats are doing that with climate
change all the time. It's the world's gonna end unless
you do what we say, and then everything will be great,
and you get to be one of the good people
who have stopped this evil from befalling the whole planet.
That's the pitch, right. A lot of people go along
(10:16):
with it. A lot of people think that this is
exactly what they need to be a part of. Costs
them nothing really, or at least in the immediate in
the immediate sense, and they get to be saving the planet,
saving the planet, the Green New Deal, Joe Biden. These
are people who have no understanding whatsoever of the role
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that fossil fuels play in the economy in a sense
of what creates our real prosperity, and where America has
a tremendous advantage over so many other countries, huge advantage
over China, and you guessed it, fossil fuel production. We
are blessed in this country with access to unbelievable energy reserves,
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and the Left just wants to, out of a sense
of arrogance and spite, move us away from that as
fast as possible, at whatever the cost is, because they've
turned this into a function of religious belief. And Joe
Biden out there telling everybody that this is about national
security transitioning to greener I mean, come on, trust me.
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Vladimir Putin is not scared of Libs in you know,
the Valley of California putting some additional solar panels funded
by taxpayer credits onto their houses. Okay, that's not making
The Saudis aren't worried about it, the Russians aren't scared
of it. But these are the things they're trying to
sell you on with this With this bill, doesn't matter
(11:50):
that it's not going to work. They are dedicated to it.
Another thing where I'm wondering what the explanation is from
the Libs. We have busload right here in New York
City where I am, bus loads of illegal migrants being
dropped off courtesy of Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas
arranging this bus transportation for them, and the Mayor of
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New York as well as the mayor of DC because
there are bus loads dropping off illegal migrants. There too
are complaining about this, which is so strange because I
remember hearing all the time about how we are all
made richer and better and safer and more law abiding
as a country. And the more illegal immigrants the better,
is the Democrat belief. Illegal immigrants people that just come.
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We don't know who they are, we don't you know,
we just they just show up. They say here I am.
They come into the country. A lot of them are gataways.
Others surrender themselves whatever. They're fine with it. They're fine
with they want more of it. So then why is
New York complaining about it. Let's dive into that one
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be able to do it because I can't drive. And
viol Vice president President Vice President Area had Biden say
you want to buy an electric corvette. He's kind of mumbling,
doing the Biden thing, the vice president, I mean President,
but electric corvette, Hunt. They're gonna be making those, that
(14:25):
is a thing. Um, They're gonna be making electric corvett.
You're gonna make a lot of electric cars going forward.
Notice how the left claims to care so much about
climate change, and yet the person who has done more
for the electric car industry to be really on the
up and up more than any other, Elon Musk and Tesla,
(14:46):
gets a lot of a lot of heat from the left.
They don't like him because he believes at some level
in capitalism and freedom and is reality based in much
of his thinking. I'm sure he's not right wing on
a whole range of thing too, but he does have
some places where he is highly rational or in general,
it's highly rational in his thinking, and there's some places
(15:07):
where that makes you effectively right wing these days. Steve
in Minnesota, what do you got for? As Steve Buck
this is I'm up here. I just was thinking, you know,
for those that have never seen the movie Red Dawn,
that's dead on what's what's gonna come? They don't get
(15:27):
their act together here pretty soon? Well, you think there's
gonna be an invasion involving the Soviets in Cuba, but
in this case it would be China instead, Right, China,
I think? Well, only to make your producer said, they're
not going to pass the parachute because they're already here. Well, Steve,
thanks for calling it from Minnesota. Red Dawn, the original
(15:50):
Red Dawn was a cult classic. Um, I'm gonna be
honest with you all. I've seen parts of it. I
haven't really seen it in one sitting all the way through,
but they did a Red Dawn remake, and I believe
it did not do very well Back in twenty twelve.
I think that North Korea instead of China was the antagonist.
(16:12):
Right So I'm gonna say this right now. I don't
even think the Biden administration would be incapable of repelling
an invasion by North Korea. I think they would be
able to handle that one. China would be certainly more
of a handful. But that's a reminder that you can't
even Hollywood no longer makes movies where America is the
(16:33):
good guy and some other country anywhere else in the
world is our opponent in the movie. They just don't
do that anymore. It's quite a shift, isn't it. You
think back to not only Red Dawn, but also Rocky
four with Ivan Drago, we were all cheering for America
against the Soviet Union. You have, the obvious antagonist would
(16:58):
be China in the current context. But China is such
a big market for these movies, and the Chinese Communist
Party has so many investments, so many economic levers to
pull against big companies, tech companies, creative arms of places
(17:19):
like Amazon, etc. That they are able to avoid any
of that, and they end up even making movies with
Matt Damon, like Great Wall, which is the most I
don't know, was that not on the list of the
biggest bombs yesterday? Because maybe it made money. It might
have even made money. The movie. I couldn't get through
more than more than ten minutes of it. I tried.
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I'm like, there's there's acrobats flying around with all this
colorful stuff, and there's weird lizard monsters attacking them, and
it's China, but it's the whole thing was crazy. It
was I've never done acid, but I imagine an acid
trip is something along the lines of watching Matt Damon's
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We've all seen the sentencing conviction of Britney Grinder to
nine years in prison, and that further compounds the injustice
that's being done to her and her wrongful detention. It
(19:07):
puts a spotlight on our very Signfican concern with Russia's
legal system and the Russian government's use of wrongful detentions
to advance its own agenda using individuals as political bonds.
The same goes for Paul Wheelan. We put forward, as
you know, a substantial proposal that Russias had engaged with
us on and what Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning
(19:28):
and said publicly is that they are prepared to engage
through channels we've established to do just that, and we'll
be pursuing that. That was a Secretary of State speaking
about Britney Grinder getting a nine years sentence in Russian prison,
where she's going to Russian prisons as of now for
nine years. Just yesterday, the Russians have confirmed that the
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trade negotiations are under way for Victor Bout, the arms trafficker,
notor US arms trafficker who served as the inspiration for
the Nicolas Cage character in the film Lord of War.
That trade may be happening, and it would include Paul
whale In, a former marine who was wrongfully charged with
(20:16):
espionage in Russia. And so this is a inherently a
foreign policy issue, which is why the Secretary of State,
anytime an American has held abroad, there's a reason that
the embassy gets involved. Now that doesn't mean the embassy
gets you out, doesn't mean the American government even says, hey,
you're not allowed to hold that person. Depends on what
you do. You know, if you're you're drunk driving and
(20:39):
caused a serious accident in Tajikistan. You're going to serve
some time in prison, right, doesn't matter that there's a
US embassy there. They're going to say, yeah, this person
violeted your laws. But they'll they'll be there to make
sure that you have some for you know, for humanitarian purposes,
some to process rights that they'll try to do what
they can with the host government to make sure that
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the best interests of that American citizen are looked after.
Essentially is how it goes. But I know there was
a really interesting how much the audience I think yesterday
of this program really felt a whole range of emotions
over this. When it comes to Brittany Griner and I
(21:24):
should you know, there's this amazing story. I don't know
if anyone can there's a I've seen it pop up
over the years. I wonder if it is apocryphal. It's
supposedly from the Ronald Ronald Reagan's speech back in I
think it was the seventies where he talked about the
uss Ingram and a refugee from the Austro Hungarian Empire
(21:49):
named Kasta. I've not been able to find that much
documentation of this speech, and it looks like one of
these stories that I don't know. It's an amazing story
though for what it is, and you know what, I'll
read this one thing. I can't verify the providence of this,
(22:10):
but it's a good story. So we can say it's
either a speech that it's either from a speech that
Reagan gave, or it's just something that somebody made up
on the Internet that sounds like a speech Reagan gave.
And it's really good. I know there is a uss ingram.
There have been many of them, many iterations of that
in the United States Navy, but you see this one.
(22:30):
This is the story that pops up. And I'm wondering
if someone could send me a true source verification for
this in Reagan's speeches, because I've done a little looking
and was naughty, and don't just send me like Reagan
speech slash net dot php underscore. It's got to be
you know, show me. I need to see the original
source material on it. But here's the story, apocryphal or not.
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In less than twenty years, would go because the god
given rights of American sailors, as defined the Constitution were
being violated by a foreign power. This is supposed to
be Reagan speaking here. We serve notice then on the world,
that all of us together would act collectively to safeguard
the rights of even the least among us. But still
in an older cynical world, they were not convinced. The
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great powers of Europe still had the idea that one
day this great continent would be open again to colonizing,
and they would come over and divide us up. In
the meantime, men who yearned to breathe free were making
their way to our shores. Among them was a young
refugee from the Austro Hungarian Empire. He had been a
leader in an attempt to free Hungary from Austrian rule.
(23:37):
The attempt had failed, and he fled to escape execution.
In America. This young Hungarian Costa by name, became an
importer by trade and took out his first citizenship papers.
One day, business took him to a Mediterranean port. There
was a large Austrian warship under the command of an
admiral in the harbor. He had a manservant with him.
(23:59):
He had described to this manservant what the flag of
his new country looked like. Word was passed to the
Austrian warship that this revolutionary was there, and in the
night he was kidnapped and taken aboard that large ship.
This man's servant, desperate, walking up and down the harbor,
suddenly spied a flag that resembled the description he had heard.
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It was a small American war sloop. He went aboard
and told Captain Ingraham of that war sloop his story.
Captain Ingraham went to the American consul. When the American
consul learned that Costa had only taken out his first
citizenship papers, the consul washed his hands of the incident.
Captain Ingraham said, I am the senior officer in this port,
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and I believe under my oath of my office that
I owe this man the protection of our flag. He
went aboard the Austrian warship and demanded to see their prisoner,
our citizen. The admiral was amused, but they brought the
man on deck. He was in chains and had been
badly beaten. Captain Ingraham said, I can hear him better
without those chains, and the chains were removed. He walked
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over and said to Costa, I will ask you one question.
Consider your answer carefully. Do you ask the protection of
the American flag Costa nodded dumbley yes, and the captain said,
you shall have it. He went back and told the
frightened console what he had done. Later in the day,
three more Austrian warships sailed into the harbor. It looked
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as though the four were getting ready to leave. Captain
Ingraham sent a junior officer over to the Austrian flagship
to tell the admiral that any attempt to leave that
harbor with our citizen aboard would be resisted with appropriate force.
He said that he would expect a satisfactory answer by
four o'clock that afternoon. As the hour near, they looked
at each other through the glasses. As it struck four,
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he had them roll the cannons into ports, and had
them light the tapers with which they would set off
the cannons just one little sloop. Suddenly the lookout tower
called out and said they are lowering a boat, and
they rowed Costa over to the American ship. Captain Ingraham
then went below and wrote his resignation letter for the
United States Navy. In it, he said, I did what
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I thought my office of oath required, But if I
have embarrassed my country in any way, I resign. His
resignation was refused in the United States Senate with these words.
This battle that was never fought may turn out to
be the most important battle in our nation's history. Incidentally,
to this day, there always will be and has been
a uss Ingraham in the United States Navy. I don't
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know if that's really from a regged speech. It's one
of these things that gets set around by like you know,
friends or friends on the internet. It's a great story.
Is it real? I don't know, sounds real, It's well written,
but it was making its rounds and I just I
thought of this because I'd seen this for many, many
years circulating on the internet, and I thought, well, that's
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kind of how I feel about any American who is
held abroad. So it please, by the way, if you
could prove it that is real, let us let me
know and send a link. That seems kind of seems suspect,
But it's the basic ethos of this I agree with,
which is that if you're an American, you're one of ours.
Even if you say annoying stuff, even if you have
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bad you know, bad politics, whatever, if you're an American,
you're one of ours. And that still matters still matters
to me, and the First Amendment still matters to me
a lot too, which is why I'm I'm I haven't
spent a lot of time thinking about this or covering
the the trial right now going on of Alex Jones.
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And I'll say this, if I had watched it more closely,
if I had more time, I think I would have
spent more on it this week. But there's a lot
of things that have been happening and I just haven't
really been diving into it. Look, the stuff that he
said about Sandy Oak we all knows is atrocious, it's wrong,
and it's grotesque. But they I do remember that Alex
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Jones was the first person that they really made an
example of on the Internet years and years ago, before
they were admitting that they were banning conservatives, they banned
Alex Jones, or I should say, before they were banning
people like me or or anyone else you know, for
saying masks don't work or having having any questions about
the vaccines. Alex Jones was the first person I can
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remember to be deep personed in essence from the Internet
by big Tech. So I remember that lesson, and it
was because he was a they would saying he was
a crazy person, and you know he's s taking a
couple of shots at me in the past. Whatever, It's
part of the business for some people. They say things
about some people. And he said, I was I think
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a CIA plant meant to take over the media, which
I wish man, that would be amazing. CIA was backing
me taking over the media. Book Sexton part of the CIA.
He's gonna just take it all over, build the Berg's Illuminati.
But he's unders He's gone through this trilogy, just got
a four million dollars judgment against it, and you know
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there is this I think we've lost sight in this country.
We have both a legal and an ethical principle that
free speech, even speech that is heinous, even speech that
is wrong, is protected. I know there are exceptions with defamation.
I know there are some places where that is not
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an absolute. But are they making an example of Alex
Jones right now, because no one's going to stand up
and in any way defend the things that he said?
Are they? Are they doing this though at some level,
because this will be a precedent that is used to
shut down people who are you vaccine critic criminals, so
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to speak. Look at the lives that you've caused by
being a questioner of the vaccines. I do worry about this,
and I think that it's something we all have to
keep an eye on. That it always starts with the
least defensible. It always starts with the people that you say,
oh you know that, why do you say that? Or
why is he doing that? And the left never leaves
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on the Clay Travis en Buck Sexton Show in just
a few minutes here, So thanks for being with us
as always, much appreciated, Clay. I'll be back on Monday.
I was trying to find if there is in fact
any documentary evidence of any kind for the Ingraham cost affair.
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It's looking shaky, so it might be one of those
things I've seen. I told you beforehand, I said, I
read this ASID. I don't know. It'll look at a
little shaky, look at a little bit like I don't know.
Let's see, we'll see. But you know, sometimes on the internet,
you gotta remember Abraham Lincoln's timeless maxim don't believe everything
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you read on the internet. And it's very important. Abraham
Lincoln he knew what he was talking about back then.
Hardy harheart. I know it's a dad joke. I know
Greg in Iowa. How are you doing, Greg? What's going on? Buck?
I have a farm in northwest Missouri. We have two windmills.
From the first time I signed a contract with the
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windmill company, it was twelve years before it produced any electricity,
thanks to all the regulations and stuff that they have
to go through. Also number two, last year there were
two hundred and sixty million cars in the United States,
and one million of them were electric cars. At that rate,
it's going to take two hundred and sixty years to
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replace all of our cards. Thanks for your time, beed,
Thank you, sir. Sounds like sounds like it's going to
take quite a while before we get to a place
where that actually is going to really happen. There is
something on Justice dot gov about the Costa affair seized
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by an Austrian. Interesting. I think we have superhistorians in
this audience. Somebody must must know whether this is a
real thing or not had cost to express it. This
is from Justice dot gov and there's a footnote about
the Austrian warship story and Costa surrender, etc. Interesting. So
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I don't know the plot thickens, I can tell you
it's unfortunate. There are so many I've gotten I've gotten
dinged on this before. There are so many quotes usually
attributed to either Orwell, Churchhill or Voltaire. We were like,
that quote is awesome, and it's not actually any of
those guys. It's a it's someone named Bob who lives
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in central Illinois who just had a real moment of
brilliance that he that has then been attributed over the
internet to Voltaire. You know, so this is this is
the outs of theater of these days. At least we're
not all drowning in those chain email letters we used
to get all the time. You remember, that was a
thing drove me insane. People would send you some email.
(34:09):
It's like, oh, like, let me make your day better.
Here are ten things, ten affirmations about how your day
is better. And then the bottom, which that part of
it's fine, I don't problem, but whatever the bottom Thoughe
was like, you better send this forward or else you're
going to have fifteen years of bad luck, go bankrupt,
and have bad health. And you're like, wait, but but
I just wanted to open my email in peace. I
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just wanted to I just wanted to read, I thought
we were in the trust tree. I thought we were
in the nest. No, that was not, in fact, not
in fact the case. By the way, three and five
Americans wish that they ate. I saw this pole yesterday.
Wish they ate with their family daily. One quick note,
I remember from the wait Dave has the rea? Does
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Dave have the goods? Here? It better not be Reagan
speeches backslash underscore PHP Reagan Patriots seven seventy five, Dave,
what do you got for us? In Utah? In the
book The Last Best Hope The Greatest Speeches of Ronald
Reagan by Ronald Reagan, the story you related as starts
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on page twenty three, the citation on page nineteen. This
was delivered to the First Conservative Political Action Conference January
twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four. And I'm actually looking at
it in Google books. I think bingo, I think can
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the referee single touchdown? I think we've got it on
the field. I think he got both feet down. Dave,
I knew this audience had pulled us off, right. Isn't
that a great story? Have you ever heard that one before? No, sir,
And it was nice to hear. I'm going to get
back to cursing at my computer. And this was a
use of my super nerd powers for good. Thank you
(35:54):
for you, thank you for unleashing those nerd powers, sir.
We appreciated here. That's what I try to do on
radio every day. Nerd powers. Thank you, sir oh Man,
Look at look at that. Look I'm not a c
I thought you know media matters us book Sexton thinks
you so smart, reads fake Reagan's speech anecdote. But apparently,
what can I tell you? You You know, no big deal
(36:16):
over here, just getting it done for freedom in America. Folks.
It was such an honor and approvage to be with
you this week. Thank you for sticking with me while
our may Man Clay has been on vacation. He will
be back Monday. I'll be back with you monday. We're
looking forward to getting back into the swing of the
dynamic duo of talk radio. So it's gonna be a
(36:36):
great time for sure. In the meantime, eat dinner with
your family more often. That was gonna get you before.
Whenever you can, whenever you can. Maybe I'll tell the
longer story about that next week. I was told that
by a very wise Jesuit a long time ago, and
have a great weekend. Read a good book, check out
some fun stuff. Talk to you on Monday. Shield Time
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